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Friday, July 16, 2010

End of Week 2: Tell es-Safi/Gath

Today we had another exciting day at Tell es-Safi/Gath. It began with a visit from the Australian Ambassador, the Honourable Andrea Faulkner, and continued with uncovering this Philistine amphora. Here, the Ambassador is speaking with one of my MA students, Sam Crooks. We also had a visit from the Megiddo team and student Caroline Tully is pictured here speaking with the Megiddo Director, Israel Finkelstein.

About Me

I'm a native of southern California. After attending USC, and pursuing a life of aimless partying in the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles, I was inspired to study archaeology after seeing the movie Lawrence of Arabia and reading 17 books about TE Lawrence. I did my MA and PhD at UCLA, where I also excavated in California, Syria, and Greece. Now I teach archaeology at Melbourne Uni, but I'll always be a native Angeleno at heart. I love pets and have had many, but my last 3 have been wire haired fox terriers.